 | Great Britain - 1918 - 816 pages
...Shakespeare's first comedy, " Love's Labour's Lost," makes his lyric confession of a lover's faith : — " From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle...world : Else none at all in aught proves excellent." % Tasso in his vSle of pastoral dramatist soon found a formidable Italian rival in his disciple Guarini,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1926 - 504 pages
...Bacchus gross in taste ; For valour, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ? Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet and musical, As bright...; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That shew, contain, and nourish all the world ; Else, none at all in aught proves excellent ; Then fools... | |
 | Geology - 1901 - 666 pages
...love that women's eyes engender, Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world It is of course always dangerous to use a great set speech in Shakespeare as evidence for the character... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Collections - 1969 - 284 pages
...heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world; 350 Then fools you were these women to forswear; Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For... | |
 | Mark Breitenberg - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 240 pages
...Berowne is no less soaring in his praise of the new feminine ideal that justifies renouncing the oath: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (IV.iii. 354-358) In an earlier version of the same speech (which Bevington prints in his Textual Notes)... | |
 | Michael J. Collins - Drama - 1997 - 268 pages
...have found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (4.3.295-351) Yet Berowne has begun the scene with a very negative description of his own experience... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world ; FJlse, none at all in aught proves excellent ; Then fools you were these women to forswear ; Or,... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...world: Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (Love's Labour' i Lost, iv. iii. 320) Observe here the contrast of 'leaden contemplation' and 'slow... | |
 | Michael C. Corballis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 292 pages
...understand the power of the eye better than men do, for as Biron observed in Love's Labour's Lost: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent.'" •" Kobayashi and Kohshima 200 1 * Act 4, scene 3 This is not to say But whether or not their eyes... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...Materials, ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. To our wives, Mary and Laura, for bearing with these and other labors From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (Love's Labor's Lost, 4.3.347-5 1) CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Stephen W. Smith and Travis... | |
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And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.... 
